SCN4A-related channelopathy

SCN4A-related channelopathy

Definition

Any muscular channelopathy in which the cause of the disease is a variation in the SCN4 gene. This is characteristic of a continuum in the clinical spectrum that includes sodium-channel myotonia, paramyotonia congenita, hypokalemic periodic paralysis type II and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.

Also known as SCN4A-related channelopathy — per MONDO